Great advice above...It's perfectly normal to be nervous when doing something you've never done before, especially when there is a lot of money involved...It certainly gets easier the more you experience, the more you learn, and the more you get out there and take action.

Or is there some secret to the perfect open house that sells a home on the first day, every time?

The near-perfect roomie I have dislikes having animals in the house and she hates the smell of cigarettes, so the no pets and no smoking clauses were part of the reason she moved in.

I'm pretty sure we can get the price down to where is would be profitable for one home, but we have a really modern design available that would fit perfectly on a 40' wide lot.Would our best bet be to get a real estate attorney in that county that specializes in zoning?

That makes perfect sense to me - I don't want anyone to do anything for "free" necessarily - I just don't understand "hand over your tax docs, that will be $300!"

A basic contractor grade single hung window should be perfect for this situation.

Noone's perfect on planet earth but you have the good sense to know better here; which is why you started this thread. 

She went out there to figure things out for her clients and I believe she did (I assume she found a new PM - I don't know though).No company is perfect but I felt like the agent I worked with was willing to bend over backwards to make me (and her other clients) happy and satisfied. 

What a dirt-bag.What Michelle suggests is perfectly fine, and in fact is commonplace.  

Took us years to perfect to get a good response.Have a good one!